Summer dolly projects

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Next up... I did a mass re-chipping day awhile back, always a major undertaking for me because I tend to have issues with getting screws out. Sure enough, all four dolls I was working on (two of which I'm focusing on today, and two more who will get their own posts later, 'cause I did other stuff to them besides re-chipping) gave me issues! The good thing about working on multiple dolls at once was that I could keep switching off as I got frustrated, but yeah... kind of major frustrations throughout. Stupid screws! I think I worked on them for over an hour the first night, and didn't succeed getting all the screws undone on any of them! Luckily when I returned for round two the next day, I finally succeeded with all of them Yay!

First up is Charlotte, the Alice du Jardin I picked up on ebay last year. She was missing an arm, but I managed to rebody her pretty quickly (cheap Pullip bodies are usually easy to find, as opposed to cheap Dal and Taeyang bodies before the recent PullipStyle restock). Now I decided to give her different chips, a kind of purplish pair. I'm still not sure if this is her final look... I'm kind of tempted to re-wig her in something less pink, but my want list of wigs is quite long right now, so it'll probably be awhile.

Charlotte6 by tisue999, on Flickr

As for Catinka, she's a Pullip Dahlia Cinderella I got from the Sample Sale a couple years back. She has gone through several wigs over the years, and while I don't think she's worn any of them badly, someone else always came along who wore them better! First she had a Leekeworld wig...

Cat1 by tisue999, on Flickr

Eventually stolen by Jem (Akoya)
Jem11 by tisue999, on Flickr

Then she had a ForMyDoll wig...

Cat11 by tisue999, on Flickr

Eventually requisitioned by Evangelina (VeryBerryPop)
Eva4 by tisue999, on Flickr

I finally gave her a Luts wig last year that she seems to be keeping, but I've long thought she'd look better with brown eyes. I tried to rechip her last fall, but after getting her head open I could not get the screws on the eye mech to budge. This time around I attacked them directly with pliers, and they finally came out!

Then I discovered that one of the few pairs of brown chips I have left were slightly small and misshapen. Luckily I remembered reading this from CornflowerBlue-- https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornflower...703217143/ -- and decided I'd give painting the inside rim of the eye globe with black acrylic a try. I was a little nervous as I don't have the steadiest hand, but it worked out OK. Of course it's probably not apparent at all in my crappy quality photo, but I think the slight black rim looks really nice. All in all I'm pleased with Catinka's new look.

Cat18 by tisue999, on Flickr